Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting poppler package, versions [,21.07.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-POPPLER-10078164
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed22 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-9959  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade poppler to version 21.07.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. The JPXStream::init function in Poppler 0.78.0 and earlier doesn't check for negative values of stream length, leading to an Integer Overflow, thereby making it possible to allocate a large memory chunk on the heap, with a size controlled by an attacker, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1